Market Insights Analyst
Location: GB, LND, London
Department: Analytics
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Entry level
Required education: Associate Degree
Industry: Computer Games
Function: Business Analyst

Company profile:
Space Ape Games is an Award Winning Mobile/Social Gaming startup founded in 2012. We’re a small, high-performing team with big aspirations to make the highest quality and most successful games on your smart phone and tablet.We believe that the trait nearly all of the most successful games on mobile and tablet have in common is that they were made by talented teams with lots of experience working together. There are tens of thousands of app developers, but only a handful of really good, really experienced, well gelled teams out there.Accordingly, everyone on our team is an “A-player” with deep gaming experience. We are some of the key guys and gals behind the biggest games on Facebook and on the internet. Our team is behind a #1 game on Facebook, two #2 games on facebook, and one of the biggest virtual worlds for kids on the planet. And now with Samurai Siege we have a US top 50 grossing app (top 10 in some countries) played by more than 7m people in it’s first few months since launch.We love great tech. Not for its own sake but because we make games for big audiences and that means it’s got to work all the time. Because we are in a competitive space and that means we need to be fast and efficient. We are serious about sprint management. It’s good for our game, and keeps us focused.We are a creative company tempered by great analytics. Smart analytics can make a good game even better. But we think analytics alone makes soulless products. Why choose just one?

Job description:
Market Insights AnalystSpace Ape is a “San Francisco Style” tech startup in the heart of Soho, London.We are committed to building a company of world class engineering and world class game craftsmanship – a place where the best engineers love to work and the best game designers and developers love to create the future of play.  We think the best teams will inevitably make the best products.Our culture is centered around empowerment, passion, commitment, and fun.  We’re a small team because we believe small teams can change the world.  And one day when we are bigger, we’ll be a bigger company full of small teams.We believe that happiness is important.  We strive to create a happy and productive working environment.  Our studio is really cool.  It is nice, bright, and open, the kitchen is stocked and the Foosball table is wifi-enabled.We seek individuals who, in addition to being amazing engineers, also enjoy the other aspects of building a new company such as designing features, making decisions, multi-stack programming, recruiting, finding users; you name it. And foosball.But most of all, we are looking for extraordinarily talented individuals who share our love of technology and games.  

Requirements:
or the role as “Market Insights Analyst” we are looking to hire an enthusiastic and motivated gamer to play games all day long. Seriously, we mean it! We want you to play mobile and tablet games all day, every day...especially our games and other successful games that our players enjoy.  You will be figuring out  what mechanics and tactics are dominating the charts, review new game releases and updates and generally be our pulse of the industry.Your task is to give our game developers a detailed feedback of what is happening in market and the latest trends. In mobile gaming these change monthly!  When you’re game takes a year to develop, that is an eternity in this market so it is a critical job for the game designers to keep up to date and ensure that when we ship the game it is cutting edge.  Luckily we work very agile at Space Ape.  We take feedback on every week and make changes that reach millions of players the next week. You will be at the centre of this.  We are looking for a passionate gamer who is at the same time analytical, creative and can give proper feedback to make our games more fun and of course more successful.  Game development is a combination of art and science, or creativity and commerciality, design and data. You appreciate all these things but deep down: you’re a gamer and understand what gets gamers blood racing.

Benefits:
If you feel like we are writing about YOU then please don’t hesitate to send us your profile and we’ll bring you in to talk games with our world leading game developers. This is a perfect job for someone looking to enter the gaming market or follow their passion into a career in game design, product management, analytics or customer insights.